Daphne Direct Shop sinking conflict: Stores have been blocked by franchisees

Daphne joined the rights of the event and new progress, according to the daily economic news reporter understand, Hubei Xiaogan area Daphne all straight shop has been blocked by the franchisee nearly 6th. Daphne Xiaogan franchisee was broken off from September 12, as of yesterday, the Hubei area franchisee has been Daphne in the Xiaogan 4 direct shop with a lock for 6 days. By the latest news last night, the 4 Duff of the company have ceased to operate.　　A Hubei franchisee, Mr. Xu told reporters that this is only a beginning, if the problem is still unresolved, we will be their respective areas of the direct shop to shut down.　　Prior to this, because Duff company adjusted the marketing strategy, will originally only open in large and medium cities Direct shop channel to the county level market extension, in the process with the company joined the business has a conflict of interest. Ms. Gan is the only franchisee in Hubei Xiaogan area. Ms. Gump says Daphne has been looking for stores in several counties and cities to open a direct shop. In the new straight shop, the same style of products, the price is much lower than the franchise shop.　　She told reporters that the company's representative Sun Quan last came to Hubei and everyone to negotiate a renewal of the time to her, the company saw her market, proposed to direct the store into, was Ms. Gan on the spot refused. The Xiaogan area franchisee said, because did not promise to enter the store, the company in the renewal of the set up a lot of "threshold", "the company asked to take 500,000 before the contract can be renewed, but when the original signing of the agreement did not specify." "Ms. Gan told the reporter, two weeks ago she had to call the company, originally stipulated payment a week company on delivery, responsible for the logistics of freight said the company stopped her goods."　　And according to Ms. Gan understand, other franchisee goods have been received.　　Franchisee Xu said, Guangshui region Daphne's Direct shop has been in the more than a year, because of the variety of products in the shop, cheap, has been a local franchisee sales caused a great impact.　　The goal of direct channel is becoming clearer "daily economic news" reporter yesterday interviewed Daphne PR director Huangyingjie, he said that has sent people to the local consultation, and the company has never made it clear that the past to join the argument, but the proportion of the franchise may be reduced or direct shop growth faster. In the industry, according to the current situation, Daphne is not only in the optimization of the franchisee structure. Magang, an independent commentator on clothing, thinks Daphne's purpose is obvious and wants to be completely straight.　　In the first half of the year, Daphne increased 411 direct shops, while reducing the number of 45 franchise stores, the company's core brand of direct shop to increase the proportion to about 83%. For the layout of the direct store franchisee market, Huangyingjie said: "Involved in business confidentiality, the company is not convenient to disclose the details of the external." "Now it is not important to see whether the franchisee continues to join the dispute. Magang that the franchisee should seek legal protection under the contract. Yan, a prominent activist lawyer, said there was a dispute over whether the company would enter the franchisee market. From the contract point of view, the company violates the contract. "But in terms of antitrust law, a placeA franchisee objectively to the competition caused by restrictions, there is a direct store after the competition and the interests of consumers.　　"In the case of Ms. Gan's mention that the company has not yet delivered her shipments, Huangyingjie said the company would never deliberately delay shipments, possibly due to factory delivery and logistical problems." For Duff NI Company requirements franchisee to reach 500,000 requirements, Yan said this is unreasonable conditions. "Because there is no explicit requirement in the contract, the company is now trying to reject the deal, a bit of abuse of dominance."